Today we’re delighted to announce an acquisition that allows PublishPress to better support the needs of WordPress teams.

PublishPress has acquired Bylines, the modern multi-author plugin for WordPress.

Bylines allows you to assign multiple authors to a post and publish articles from guest authors. Bylines represents the best in class of WordPress plugin development, with unit tests, PHP autoloading, and more.

Bylines was launched by Daniel Bachhuber, who is famous in the WordPress community for his work on WP-CLI and the Co-Authors Plus plugin, which was the inspiration for Bylines. Daniel decided to find a new home for Bylines because it wasn’t his primary focus and he wanted to make sure it receives the attention it deserves.

What does this mean for Bylines customers?

All existing Bylines customers will have their purchase agreements honored.

Our first step will be to release Bylines 3.0. This will be available from PublishPress.com.

Next, we plan to merge Bylines with the existing Multiple Authors add-on. This will retain all the features of Bylines, plus some great additional features from Multiple Authors. It will be a smooth upgrade for Bylines users.

Expect to see ongoing updates and new features for Bylines/Multiple Authors throughout 2018 and beyond.

Summary

WordPress is becoming more and more popular with large teams producing high-quality content. The PublishPress team will continue to add features designed to help those teams create great content.